[lugm.org] Fwd: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE wins the transparency challenge of the EU Datathon 2022

Mon Oct 31 06:19:01 UTC 2022

Hi,

I suppose that you are aware of https://data.govmu.org/dkan/

Mauritius has an open data policy (as well as an open source software
policy) since 2014.

The country has a vibrant private sector and great communities.

All the building blocks are here.

It's just a question of someone taking the initiative and the
responsibility.

Avinash

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 09:23 Jheengut Pritvi <z.coldplayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to adapt this in Mauritius?
>
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> From: <press at fsfe.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022, 18:09
> Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE wins the transparency challenge of the EU
> Datathon 2022
> To: <press-release at lists.fsfe.org>
>
>
>  = FSFE wins the transparency challenge of the EU Datathon 2022 =
>
> [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20221026-01.en.html ]
>
> The sixth edition of EU Datathon [1], the EU’s open data competition,
> came to a close last week with the awards ceremony. The Free Software
> Foundation Europe (FSFE) won the first prize in the challenge
> ‘transparency in public procurement’ with a program that helps analyse
> how public administrations in the European Union spend their money.
>
> At the EU Datathon finals, that took place in Brussels as part of the
> European Year of Youth [2], TEDective, the project submitted by the
> FSFE, ended up winning one of the four proposed challenges, that Europe
> is currently facing: the achievement of transparency in public
> procurement.
>
> Using open data this Free Software program empowers citizens by making
> EU tendering data accesible to everyone who wants to consult and use it.
> For example, it will allow a journalist to find out how much money the
> government spends on Microsoft licenses and products, but also to
> compare that spending with other regions in similar cases or even in
> comparison with other countries.
>
> “Although it might seem boring at first sight, TED data reveals crucial
> information about the economic activity of business and state
> organisations alike. As, there was no Free Software solution making this
> data accessible to non-experts, this is what we’re trying to do with
> TEDective”, explains Linus Sehn, system administrator at FSFE and one of
> the members of the TEDective team. This first prize, which comes with a
> cash reward of 25,000 euros, willl contribute to raise awareness to the
> need of making tendering data accesible and easy to analyze.
>
>  === Available for using, understanding sharing and improving ===
>
> Developed with the help of Michael Weimann [3], and released as a REUSE-
> compliant [4] project under a Free Software (also known as Open Source)
> license, TEDective improves access to the data published by Tenders
> Electronic Daily [5] (TED), fullfilling all of the following
> requirements with regards to the provision of TED data: it is available
> without costs for commercial as well as non-commercial use; it is up-to-
> date (updates at least on a monthly basis), cleaned and both buyers and
> suppliers are adequately deduplicated; and it can be downloaded in bulk,
> making it available as Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) to allow
> interoperability. Besides, it will be designed, maintained and monitored
> transparently and in close co-operation with all relevant stakeholders
> and user groups.
>
> Sustainably providing long-term access to European tendering data in a
> way that fulfils these requirements could enable numerous applications
> that are of interest to civil society, business, the press, and beyond
> which could greatly enhance the transparency of business activity in
> Europe. There are a range of interesting questions that can be answered
> with this data if it was available in a well-documented and easy-to-
> understand format that is interoperable with tendering data published
> elsewhere.
>
> If you want to find out more about TEDective, feel free to check out the
> git repository software [6]. The team is also looking for data experts,
> who want to help, so if you are interested, please contact the team by
> emailing tedective at fsfe.org [7].
>
>  === The EU Datathon 2022 ===
>
> Empowering young people in the job market, reducing greenhouse
> emissions, and bringing European cultural heritage closer to citizens:
> these were some of the ambitions put forward by the 12 finalist teams of
> this year’s EU Datathon, [8] The teams were shortlisted from an initial
> 156 entries from 38 countries, the highest participation in the
> competition’s history, and competed in four categories, all highly
> relevant to the challenges Europe faces today: the European Green Deal,
> transparency in public procurement, EU public procurement opportunities
> for young people, and a Europe fit for the digital age.
>
> Prior to the finals, the finalists had the opportunity to present their
> ideas for apps built on EU open data in a series of videos [9] while, on
> the final day, they pitched their polished apps to the jury of 14 open
> data experts and the online audience. In his opening speech,
> Commissioner Johannes Hahn praised the teams’ innovative approaches
> underlining that “There is also a strong positive impact on
> accountability, transparency, participation, inclusion and democracy,
> supporting core European values” while Ms Hilde Hardeman, Director
> General of the Publications Office of the EU, highlighted that “The
> European Union is well aware of the immense opportunities data offer. We
> are truly determined to make the most out of these, for our citizens,
> economies, societies”.
>
> The EU Datathon competition is organised annually by the Publications
> Office of the European Union, [10] in support of the European Strategy
> for Data [11]. [12] The 2022 edition had the active support of over 20
> partners, representing open data stakeholders from both inside and
> outside the EU institutions.
>
>   1: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon
>   2: https://youth.europa.eu/year-of-youth_en
>   3: https://weimann.digital/
>   4: https://reuse.software/
>   5: https://ted.europa.eu/TED/browse/browseByMap.do
>   6: https://git.fsfe.org/fsfe-system-hackers/tedective
>   7: https://fsfe.org/mailto:tedective@fsfe.org
>   8: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon
>   9:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYiuDfq64-Y&list=PLT5rARDev_rnik8jF6E8k5AjN5zeJmqXG
>  10: https://op.europa.eu/
>  11: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/strategy-data
>  12: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/strategy-data
>
>   == About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
>
>   Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
>   control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
>   lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
>   restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
>   understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
>   fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
>
>   The FSFE helps individuals and organisations understand how Free
>   Software contributes to freedom, transparency and self-determination. We
>   enhance users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software adoption,
>   encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and provide resources
>   to enable everyone to further promote Free Software in Europe.
>
>   https://fsfe.org
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